November 7, 2004
Ni Hao From Taiwan
It's almost midnight in Taiwan, 11:00 am back home. I spent the last two hours with the Macromedia China team going over the keynote, sessions, and press plans. I need to crash, more to follow ...
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← All posts October 20, 2004
Trying To Avoid A Wedding? Sell The Invite!
eBay UK is auctioning off "2 invitations to a wedding I don't want to go to". As per the description: "I've been invited to the wedding of a mate of mine who I used to know really well until he started going out with the girl he's going to marry. She's a dog. No really. I haven't seen them since I...
October 15, 2004
Paris: Open-Source Move Too Costly
The city of Munich generated excitement when it announced plans to convert 14,000 municipal desktops from Windows to Linux. Those plans have since been delayed due to legal issues, but many saw this as a start of a trend. And so when Paris, France, announced that it too was looking at converting...
October 14, 2004
OQO Has Been Sighted!
Not familiar with the OQO? You should be, here is a blurb from the website at http://www.oqo.com/: "The OQO model 01 ultra personal computer (uPC) is a fully-functional Windows XP computer. The OQO has a 1GHz processor, a 20GB hard drive, 256MB of RAM, a color transflective display, and integrated...
October 12, 2004
Knowledge@Wharton Publishes Interview With Macromedia CEO and CFO
Knowledge@Wharton, the Wharton School's online publication of business insight and commentary, recently spoke to Macromedia CEO Rob Burgess and CFO Betsey Nelson in Macromedia's San Francisco headquarters to explore where the company sees its opportunities and threats. The interview is now online...
October 12, 2004
Another SMS Example, Online Banking
China Mobile and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) have launched a mobile phone banking SMS service across China. China Mobile customers can send a SMS message to 777795588 to obtain bank account information detailing fund transfers, donations, and expenditures. Blurb at...
October 11, 2004
SMS Language Translation Services
A couple of days ago I mentioned the new Google SMS service, well, here is another SMS application for you to consider. The next time you are in Europe, and need help with translations, simply send your text to LingoPhone via SMS, and you'll get back a translated response. LingoPhone between...
October 9, 2004
Google Via SMS
Others have blogged this already, but it is important enough that I'll risk being repetitious. Google has created an SMS interface to its namesake search engine and information front end. Simply send a text SMS message to GOOGL (46645) and you'll get a return message with a response. Send "coffee...
October 2, 2004
Bluetooth Car Blog
Apparently, I am not the only one who is addicted to Bluetooth, and thinks that Bluetooth support is a valid prerequisite when car shopping. :-) The Bluetooth Car Blog (at http://bluetoothcar.typepad.com/) is dedicated to Bluetooth, Acura HFL, BMW ULF, and more.
October 1, 2004
Unimpressed with Motorola v600
I bought a Motorola v600 GSM phone. I bough it because I needed a quad-band device (there are remarkably few on the market) with Bluetooth support. I have other requirements too, but those top my list. And so I bought the v600. And I just returned it. Here's why: The v600 is feature rich. I have no...
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